A visit with family.....

 

Our Location: 

Ocotillo Wells BLM, Salton Sea, California

 

This morning we had plans and so up early, a quick coffee and we were out the door. A $75.00 pump at the local fuel spot had us with only a quarter of a tank more than when I started to squeeze the handle. I guess $5.99 per gallon will do that. 

 

 

We were through Indio and into Indian Wells, California knocking on Janet's door by 10 AM PST. She looks wonderful and we haven't seen her for a long while. We've missed her but we do stay in touch via phone and text messages. We visited at their home for a long while and we even picked some fresh grapefruit from her tree. We finally headed off to Mexicali's, an authentic Mexican restaurant in Indio. Can you believe I didn't take a photo of Janet or the restaurant? Well, I didn't! We had a great visit and hopefully will see her again back in Ontario before fall. 

 

Riley and I were back home around 3 pm PST and have just kind of been resting and I've been editing photos for tonight's blog. Please forgive the dirty windshield in any of the photos, we just can't seem to keep it clean. 

 

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you've had a good day. 

 

Until next time...

 

Take care, stay safe, 

 

Deb

 

A walk into the Badlands and Borrego Springs...... 30 plus photos.

 

Our Location: 

Ocotillo Wells BLM, Salton Sea, California

 

A better sleep with the help of a night time cold pill. Not how I'd like it but it is what it is. A nice morning here but the wind has steadily picked up all day. We've pulled in the big slide as it makes the topper snap and crackle and we don't want to see it flapping down over the window when it rips off. So we will make do. 

 

 

This morning I chatted with the folks across the way and learned some interesting things. They are from Germany. They are carpenters, or at least two of them are, I think there are three all together. They have a couple of off road bikes and at least one street cycle.  They pull a cargo van behind a pickup with a truck camper. The fella (I didn't get his name) said they work from April until Dec and then come to the USA for 3 months to avoid the winter weather back home. They've been doing it for 16 years. 

 

I strolled along in the edges of the badlands and took numerous photos. The paths are rutted and rough, the walls are close and it's extremely hilly here. There are numerous rocks/stones around but also what it's called mudstone. It dries out and flakes off or chunks fall off changing the looks of the wall until the outer shell once again dries up and falls off. An interesting cycle for certain. The colours are natural I didn't change anything. However the placement of the sun also makes a difference in the photo. All photos were taken this morning before 11 AM PST. 

 

The wind kept picking up and made things difficult for taking photos with dust blowing around and the tops of the hills were extremely windy, so I opted to come back home. I chatted with a different neighbour on my way back. Him and his little dog are full timers too. His newly purchased (less than a month) solar panel suitcase fell over in last nights winds and smashed one half, now it doesn't work. I suggested calling the company and explaining what happened, maybe they will give him a new one or at least prorate this one. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

 

Tomorrow we have plans to go to Indian Wells, California to visit Janet & Dennis, or at least Janet. Dennis will probably by out on the golf course. After that we are going to head back to the Yuma area for a few weeks, we have some plans there. 

 

I have changed the colours of the text in the photos to better show up against each background. I've been experimenting using iPhoto and I'm trying to decide if it's worth the extra trouble. I have a great deal of trouble loading photos from Google Photos to iPhotos and then to the blog. A pain in the ...... however I'm still testing out various things. Comments would be welcomed.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed the visit. 

 

Until next time....

 

Take care, stay safe, 

 

Deb  

 

  

More friends leave today....

 

Our Location: 

Ocotillo Wells BLM, Salton Sea, California

 

A rough night sleep wise for me, it was elusive but the sun still rose and the day moved forward. This morning just before 9 MST Riley and I climbed into the Dogsled and headed up the hill to say our 'see you soons' to Deb and Tom (Celebrating the Dance ) as they headed out today. They have things to do and so off they went. We will see them again soon, we have some jello plans in the works. 

 

 

And they are off.

 

After waving good bye and Tom letting the air horn go for a time or two, we climbed into the Dogsled and ventured into Borrego Springs. I'll post a few of those photos tomorrow. I will say though, the stage coach is missing from the circle. Very empty without it. 

 

We found the market, got a few things, including drinking water and soon we were off home again. That was our big excitement for the day and the remainder of the day was spent doing little. We have tentative plans to meet with Janet on Friday for a visit but we shall see how that works out. 

 

 

Most of today's photos are of Font's Point which we visited yesterday with Deb & Tom. An awesome view. 

 

 

My sister in law Barb should be returning from the DR today, we hope all is well and they had a great time. I hope to chat with her in a couple of days. It seems I'm chatting with my dad nightly so I won't be adding that into the posts. Although in years to come when I read these it's nice to know whom I've chatted with. A missed note, cousin Craig celebrated a birthday a couple of days ago. We hope he had a fantastic day. 

 

I'm sorry if some photos are duplicates, I had a lot of trouble with tonight's photos.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you all enjoyed your visits.  

Until next time.....

 

Take care, stay safe,

 

Deb